Ivernia

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Īvernia.

Proper noun

Ivernia

(historical, archaic) Synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island in Western Europe).

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Iverian

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰ̄ουερνία (Īouernía), from Primitive Irish (*īweriū) (compare Old Irish Ériu), from Proto-Celtic *Φīweryū.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iːˈu̯er.ni.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈver.ni.a/,

Proper noun

Īvernia f sg (genitive Īverniae); first declension

(historical, obsolete) Synonym of Hibernia: Ireland (an island in Western Europe).
- 1511, Bernardus Sylvanus ed., Jacobus Angelus's translation of Ptolemy as Liber Geographica, Bk VIII:
  In prima Tabula[:] Iuernia insula & Albion insula Brictannicae
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Īvernia
genitive	Īverniae
dative	Īverniae
accusative	Īverniam
ablative	Īverniā
vocative	Īvernia

References

“Ivernia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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